Thursday, 1 September 2016

HOW TO SOLVE GRAMMAR QUESTIONS BANK EXAM:PRONOUN Introduction and Types

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PRONOUNS

Personal Pronoun

“A pronoun is a word used instead of a Noun”.

(I, we, you, he, she, it, they) are called personal pronouns because they stand for the three persons.

(i) The person speaking

(ii) The person spoken to, and

(iii) The person spoken of.

‘You’ is both singular and Plural.

Nominative case (Subjective)

Objective case(Accusative)

Possessive case

(Genitive)

First Person

I

we

me

us

my, mine,

our, ours

Second Person

you

you

your, yours

Third person

he

she

it

they

him

her

it

them

his

her, hers

its

their, theirs

Pronouns are used so that our language is not cumbersome with the same nouns being repeated over and over in a paragraph.

Subject Pronoun: (Subjective case)

(I, we, you, he, she, it, they)

Example: She is at work.

‘She’ is main subject of the sentence, hence in the sentence, ‘She’ is the subjective personal pronoun.

Objective pronoun (objective case)

Example: He will meet us later.

‘Us’ is the objective personal pronoun, as it is the object of the verb ‘meet.’

Possessive pronoun (possessive case)

Example: That is our clubhouse.

‘Our’ shows the possession of the object ‘clubhouse’.

Gender

Example: He went to the market.

He is used for male gender.

Other examples – (his, him, he etc.)

Example: She is doing the laundry.

‘she’ is used for female gender.

(Her, hers, etc.)

Example: It is important to them.

‘It’ is gender neutral as it shows an object,

‘Them’ is also gender neutral as ‘Them’ can consists of both genders.

Others gender neutral pronouns are - (Their, they, its.)

Number

Singular Pronoun – where the pronoun is only referring to one specific Noun.

Example: That book belongs to me.

Plural Pronoun – where the pronoun is used to refer to a number of nouns.

Example: That is Their book, not yours.

REFLEXIVE PRONOUN

“They are object pronouns that we use when the subject and the object are the same Noun.”

Example: I told myself not to bet all my money on one horse.

Example: The robber hurt himself chasing me through the alley.

“Reflexive pronouns are those which are used to indicate a noun which has been used in an earlier part of the same sentence.

“These Pronouns refer to individual elements in a group or a pair, one individual at a time.”

Example: Each of the boys gets a prize.

Either of these roads leads to the railway station.

Either of you can go.

Neither of the accusations is true.

You may bring any of your friends

None of our students failed last year.

Each, either, neither are called distributive pronouns because they refer to persons or things, one at a time.

Each →used to denote every one of a number of persons or things taken singly.

Either means the one or the other of two.

Neither means not the one nor the other of two.

It is negative of either.

Either and Neither should be used only in speaking of two persons or things.

When more than two are spoken of (Any, No one, and none) should be used.

RECIPROCAL PRONOUN

Each and one really belong to the subject, Other and another are objects, but Each other and one another have become compound pronouns, (and are called reciprocal pronouns) and are rarely separated even by a preposition)

Example: The brothers quarreled with each other.

They all gave evidence against one another.

Jamie and Jack always sit beside each other in break.

They haven’t seen one another since last year.

RELATIVE PRONOUN

These pronouns are used to connect a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun.